Carbureting lamp.



No. 639,057. Patented Dec. 12, [899. w. J. KEEFE.

CARBUBETING LAMP.

(Application filed Aug. 23, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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llrrn WILLIAM J. KEEFE, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

CARBURETING LAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,057, dated December 12, 1899.

Application filed August 23, 1899. Serial No. 728,234. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. KEEFE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Vaporizing-Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in vaporizinglamps.

It has for its object to generate the gas or vapor for burning or illuminating purposes with facility and safety; also, to effect the thorough commingling or mixing of the elements to secure more nearly perfect or complete combustion, to lessen or reduce to the minimum smoke and other annoyances usually attendant in this class of devices, and at the same time to provide a brilliant illuminant or light without additional expense for production and in use.

It consists of the combination of parts, including their construction and arrangement, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, and specifically pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figures 1 and 2 are sectional elevations taken in lines at right angles to each other. Fig. 3 is a cross or horizontal section through the carburizer.

It will be understood that I do not limit myself to details, as they may be changed at will without departing from the spirit of my invention, and the same yet remain intact and be protected.

In carrying out my invention I employ a tank or holder 1 of suitable construction to hold or contain the gasolene or other hydrocarbon it may be desired to volatilize or convert into gas. At the upper end or top the holder or tank is provided With suitable means for its suspension in place-as, for instance, a hook or ring. Screwed into or otherwise attached to a tubular internally screW-threaded neck or extension at the bottom of this holder or reservoir is a pipe 5, connecting with a rectangular-like pipe or tube 7. The pipe 5 passes into the pipe 7 and telescopes or is bent at right angles, and extended some distance interiorly of or concentrically with a horizontal portion of the pipe 7, with its lower end opening and terminating within a vertical portion of the latter pipe near the upper end thereof. The pipe 5 is provided with a valve 2 4, adapted to regulate or entirely out off the flow of the fluid passing down from the tank or holder 1, said pipe being provided Witha tapered nozzle-like tube or vaporizer 18, arranged directly under said valve and adapted to pass or feed the fluid drop by drop farther down the pipe, observable through a lateral glass-covered sight-opening 3 in said pipe. The drop-by-drop feeding or passage of the fluid is received upon the right-angled lower portion of the pipe 5, thence passing along said portion of pipe, and finally dropping or falling upon a foraminous or reticulated vaporizer 15, preferably in bell shape, and suitably suspended within a vertical portion of the pipe 7 from the pipe 5. The dropping of the fluid or hydrocarbon upon the bellshaped forarninous part 15 has the effect to break up the globules of the hydrocarbon or fluid, and thus spray or vaporize it, both that deflected therefrom and that passing through said part 15, as will be readily appreciated.

The carburizer,arranged at and having (30111- munication with one of the inbent or lower horizontal portions of the rectangular-like pipe or tube 7, is formed of an inner foraminous or gauze ohamberll 17,with a series of horizontally-subdividing gauze partitions 12, an outer closure or casing 10, having a series of air inlets or perforations 14 near its upper end, and a skirt or open-bottomed closure 8, to the under side of the conical-like top or upper end of which are secured the upper ends or edges of the parts 8 10. The open bottom of the part 8 permits the inlet of air at 9, said air thence passing upward and through the openings 14 into the gauze chambers 17, and also down around the latter and into the bottom chamber or space 13, thus cir-' culating throughout the carburizer for thoroughly carburizing the air-prior to its passage to a gauze-covered neck 16, around which is' passes across through the upper end of the pipe 7, mixing at 6 with the fluid or hydrocarbon dropping from the tube or pipe 5 upon the vaporizer 15, and then down the other side of pipe or tube 7, commingled with the hydrocarbon into the carburizer, and combines or unites with the previously-carburized air admitted at 9, the two currents uniting in the carburizer and fed jointly to the burner.

The required condensation of the fluid generated may be obtained by using one or more of the bell-shaped Vaporizers 15.

By varying or adjusting the flow of fluid or hydrocarbon, as at 2 4, and the circulation or quantity of air at 9 and 20 and changing the character of the material of which the parts 11,12 are made and the size of the mesh thereof and'the number of the same the quantity of gas generated is determined; also, its color and the height and character of flame desired are obtained.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a vaporizing-lamp,the combination of the rectangular-like tube or pipe, the fluid holderor tank having a valved pendent pipe or tube opening into and extending a suitable distance within the aforesaid tube, a vaporizer or condenser arranged within one of said tubes and adapted to receive thereon the fluid falling from the other tube, and a carbureter having connection with said rectangular-like pipe or tube and comprising an inner gauze chamber, an outer chamber having air-inlets, near its upper end, and a skirt or open-bottomed closure or casing, substantially as set forth. i

2. A vaporizing-lamp consisting of a tank or reservoir, a valved pipe depending therefrom, a rectangular frame of tubular crosssection' into which the valved pipe extends, a foraminated vaporizer suspended below the opening in the valved pipe, a lamp secured between the lower ends of the rectangular frame, air-inlets at the sides of the lamp to support the flame, and an air-inlet in the rectangular frame to convey air to the vaporizer, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM J. KEEFE.

Witnesses:

LESTER L. REESE, RICHARD S. BARBRE. 

